Red leatherette with gilt stamping. Slight waviness to most pages. Possibly a printing defect. Clean, no stains or marks. Jacket has some small edge tears and rubbing along the spine. Protected now in a new mylar cover. An account of the history and renovation of the Lacquer Pavilion at Suan Pakkad Palace in Bangkok, Thailand. Twenty-four pages of text followed by a section of photographs of the mural designs on the panels of the Pavilion. The images of Panel 9 (Figures ... View more info

Edge and spine wear, ink note on front cover (three words), light fore-edge stain to rear cover. 198 pp., plus several pages of ads. Articles include The Russian Mobilization in 1914; The impact of the First World War on British Society; USA: The 'New' Political History; Britain: Soldiers and Biographers; etc. View more info

Light, general reading wear. Clean copy. Pages numbered 619-917, several black and white illustrations. Featured articles: Gaius Noster: Substructures of Western Social Thought, by Donald R. Kelley; Frontier Municipal Baths and Social Interaction in Thirteenth-Century Spain, by James F. Powers; Marriage Politics and the Family in Florence: The Strozzi-Medici Alliance of 1508, by Melissa Meriam Bullard. Review article: Pluralist Politics in British India: The Cambridge Cl... View more info

General reading wear. Clean copy. Pages numbered 763-1054, several black and white illustrations. Comparative History in Theory and Practice, I (three articles): The Case for Comparing Histories, by Raymond Grew; Antebellum Planters and Vormarz Junkers in Comparative Perspective, by Shearer Davis Bowman; and In Defense of Servitude: American Proslavery and Russian Proserfdom Arguments, 1760-1860, by Peter Kolchin. View more info

Top edge of jacket lightly bumped, no tears or chips. 186 pages, including Index and picture credits, for which there are many. Every page illustrated with photographs. High Sidey observed presidents for four decades as a reporter and writer. In this volume, he has collected his memories and anecdotes about Presidents Roosevelt (FDR), Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush (GHWB), and Clinton. View more info

Edge wear, rubbing, and spine creases to all four volumes. Volume III is missing the fornt cover. Clean interiors. some pages in each volume are unopened (uncut) at the top. Clean interiors. Spanish language text. View more info

397 pages with Glossary, Bibliography, Sources, and Index, plus Notes on Illustrations. Numerous illustrations, including maps. History covers from the beginning of the Land of Rus to the October Revolution. Foreword by Norman Stone. Preface by Dimitri Obolensky. View more info

Publisher:
Chicago, Department of Rehabilitation, Disabled American Veterans of the World War: 1930

Seller ID: 06635

Condition: Very Good

Decorated leatherette. Each volume has a moderate amount of shelf wear and rubbing at the extremities. The bindings are all tight and square. Previous owner name written on the endpapers of some volumes. Volume I contains dedication pages, which are loose and laid in at the title page. National Patron of Honor Edition registered in the name of the book's original owner (J.G. Bischoff, same name written on front endpapers). Contains what appears to be the printed signatur... View more info

Some small pinhole marks and slight wear to spine. Slight wear at the tail of the spine. Slipcase in 1960s tie-dye painted cloth with paper labels on front, containing the title, and on the spine, containing the title and volume number. The spine label is barely starting to peel. Light wear with light, scattered spotting or foxing to the cloth. English language tourism magazine. Large, heavy publication, 447 pages with Index of Advertisers. Numerous articles and photos a... View more info

Pages 443-691. Some of the articles include: A Martyr to Love: Sacrificial Desire in the Poetry of Bernart de Ventadorn; "The Living Witness of our Redemption": Martyrdom and Imitation in Chaucer's Prioress's Tale; and "That Spectacle of Too Much Weight": The Poetics of Sacrifice in Donne, Herbert, and Milton. View more info

Dark blue cloth with gilt title to spine. The letters are fading a bit. Very light amount of wear otherwise. Publisher's stamp on front pastedown (With compliments of Doubleday & Company, Inc.). Author signed (name only) on the half-title page. View more info

Stapled covers with rubbing and edge wear. Bi-monthly publication of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) focusing on the political economy of the Americas. The feature for this issue is titled, El Salvador - Why Revolution, by Robert Armstrong. This 33-page article discusses the history of El Salvador from the 1930s and the coffee oligarchy, postwar development and modernization, and the political struggles of the 1970s. The article has two Appendices an... View more info

226 pages. Some of the articles include: Cult Lines and Hellish Mountains: The Development of Sacred Landscape in the Early Medieval Alps; From Prostitutes to Brides of Christ: The Avignonese Repenties in the Later Middle Ages; and Creating Family Identity in Books of Hours. View more info